Creating thumbnail images without GD

[kgahn]

Hi Group,

is there a way to create downscaled thumbnail-images from existing image-files (gif/jpg) in PHP without having the GD module installed?

I'd like to do this on the fly, while a user uploads an image file to the server. So that only the (fast loading) thumb will shown on the preview html-page.

Thanks in advance
Karsten

[Anon]

There's a number of people who use Imagemagick http://www.imagemagick.org/, controlling it via PHP's system() and related functions.